The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.